Bees (Api)
Those wild bees
which you often see quivering headfirst
over yellow corollas
come from unknown frontiers
a swarm hatched outside
any law and order
like the stubborn flowers
they favor and defend --
the honey they engender
is an untamed honey --
vehement brazen violators
of spaces reserved
for model colonies
they are messengers
and message of a strong something
splendid with arrogance
that still places, however,
eggs and larvae in the Saints' pockets
and dies on All Souls' Day.
trns. by Rina Ferrarelli
